Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Charles Holyoke, youngest son of a pre-colonial Massachusetts family, was in his third year as a dropped freshman at Harvard. English A had begun to lose its fascination for him; the dining halls had made him a chronic dyspeptic; in short, life was dull. It was at this time that romance came into his life with young Betty Buxom. From the very first kiss they loved each other passionately. Then followed midnight swimming parties at Revere, so gay, so free, so So. One night, however, when they were frolicking about like water babies, Charles discovered to his great grief...
...greatest open space hereabouts is the inside of Memorial, what is there to prevent the insertion in the parietal regulations, of a clause referring any and all soloists to "the Asylum," as it shall henceforth be known. All cases of saxaphobia, corlnetitis, or tromboneheadedness, whether mild or chronic, should be forced to recuperate...
Sensitive Jüngling had chronic attacks of gooseflesh. At a certain beer garden in Berlin, a fat, elderly man was seen to order a stein of beer and forget it in the excitment of reading the evening shocker...
...fallacy of this argument is that it misses the point. Suppose Dean Stone does prove that the evil is not new, is it any less real for having become chronic? Perhaps the student is too close to the issue to venture a great analysis, but this, at least, is certain: many an undergraduate who takes his college work in all seriousness cannot shake off the haunting question "After all, is it worth while...
Birth rate figures for the last nine months show French parents persisting in their now chronic refusal to maintain the race. This is a source of great worry to Gallic statesmen, but no such drastic measures have been proposed there as have recently appeared in Omaha. In the Nebraska capital city a bill is under discussion providing for the annulment of all marriages which have been deliberately unproductive after two years of opportunity. Report has it, however, that the threat to irresponsible but happy married life is not a serious one, for a storm of protest has risen to block...